Tsunami - Seaside

The panel's waves came here in living memory. Late on March 27, 1964, about four hours after the Good Friday earthquake in Alaska, the sea drew out of the Necanicum estuary until it was nearly empty, then surged back up the Necanicum, Neawanna and Neacoxie channels carrying logs and sand. Water broke over the Prom, wrecked houses with four feet of water and damaged the bridges over the river. One resident crossed the 12th Avenue bridge with the water just under its deck. The West Coast tsunami warning center was set up in 1967 because of that night.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Haystack Rock — 7.7 mi
  A 235-foot sea stack made of lava that ran down the Columbia from the far side of the state, now a nesting rock for tufted puffins.
• Fort Clatsop — 10 mi
  The log post the Corps of Discovery named for its neighbors, and left to the Clatsop headman Coboway five days after stealing one of his people's canoes.
• Astoria Column — 14 mi
  A railroad's 1926 monument to its own route, wrapped in a 525-foot spiral of Oregon history that ends with the train pulling into Astoria.

More markers nearby

• Ecola — 5.7 mi
• Cannons on the Beach — 12 mi
• Fort Stevens State Park — 15 mi